Mia Wasikowska Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Mia Wasikowska:
I want to just do my job and do it well.
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The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
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Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
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I was shy at school.
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There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.
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Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
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I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
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Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
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Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.
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When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.
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Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
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Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
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Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
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I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.
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I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.
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I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
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With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
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Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.
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I love seeing my family.
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Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
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Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
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I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
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Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
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You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.
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I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
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I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
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Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
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My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
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Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
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I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
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I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
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Dance is such a stressful environment.
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I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
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You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
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It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'
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All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
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When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
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With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
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I rarely meet other young actors.
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Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
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I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
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The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
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I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
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I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
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I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
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Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
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What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
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With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
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I like to think of myself as an observer.
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As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
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It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
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I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
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I love Europe.
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As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
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I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
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I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
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I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
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Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
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I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
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I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.
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I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
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